Re: Status of mount.nfs

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:07 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>> After how long of a wait? If all the timeouts are controllable then
>> I agrees, but if we have to wait undefined-able amount of time for
>> every RPC retransmit, then I think we should do a ping...
> 
> You should be able to set the timeout either on a per-RPC call basis by
> using clnt_call(), or by changing the default timeout on the CLIENT
> object using clnt_control() (man 3 rpc).

The mount command uses a "standard" timeout structure to set a 25 second 
timeout for both UDP and TCP, but I've noticed that TCP connections for 
most RPC requests from the mount command to unavailable servers appear 
to hang indefinitely.  I'll take a look at this.

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